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Month: August 2020

Africa Investments 

Highlights: Day 2 of the African Development Bank Group’s 2020 Annual Meetings

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank Group on Thursday climaxed its 2020 Annual Meetings with a decisive reelection of President Akinwumi Adesina for a second five-year term as the pan-African development body gears up to support the continent’s COVID-19 recovery efforts. “It shows your demonstrated weight of support for my vision. It shows a very clear extra mandate from all shareholders to… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The Emene Massacre! By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
Last Sunday in Emene, Enugu State, a massacre on a small scale of unarmed members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) took place tragically. According to reports online some members of the ‘proscribed’ Biafra nationhood agitators were having a meeting (some say Jewish praying session, others recruitment exercise) inside the Community Secondary School in Emene. And suddenly the Department… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Committee to review global treaty on response to health emergencies

Global Author
The Review Committee will advise whether any amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) are necessary to ensure it is as effective as possible, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists.  He said the COVID-19 pandemic has been “an acid test” for many countries, organizations and the treaty.  “Even before the pandemic, I have spoken about how emergencies such… Read More
Human Rights Human Rights 

Deliberate silencing of peaceful voices in Iraq ‘unacceptable’, says UN human rights chief

Village Reporter
“This report sheds light on the suffering and provides concrete recommendations to help rebuild public trust”, said UN Special Representative for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert. Rising unemployment, years of corruption and failing public services had sparked massive protests last October. Despite promising steps by the current Government, the report, Human Rights Violations and Abuses in the Context of Demonstrations in Iraq,… Read More

Closing speech by Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina President, African Development Bank Group, 2020 Annual Meetings African Development Bank Group – August…

Elwin Mandowa
Honorable Niale Kaba, Chairperson of the Board of GovernorsYour Excellencies, GovernorsMembers of the Board of DirectorsSenior Management and Staff of the African Development BankLadies and Gentlemen The 2020 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank have been exciting, intense, and rich in debate and dialogue! That is what we do at the African Development Bank — thinking and mapping out… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Human rights are the ‘means by which governments can successfully beat pandemics’, says UNAIDS chief

Global Author
Interruptions of HIV services, harassment, abuse, arrests, deaths and a failure to respect human rights in the early responses to the pandemic have underscored how trust has been undermined, individuals harmed, and public health responses set back, according to a new UNAIDS report launched on Thursday. “It is a myth that there can be a trade-off between human rights and… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The Enugu Massacre And Why Tribe Matters By Aloy Ejimakor

Elwin Mandowa,
The invitation admittedly extended to the Army by Enugu Police Commissioner ahead of the deadly shooting at Emene was too prompt and bears stark evidence of premeditation for lethal violence against the Igbo element on the part of the Commissioner of Police. This premeditation stems from the customary lack of compatriot empathy often exhibited by Northern Muslim security chiefs and… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Martin Luther King’s ‘MIGHTY STREAM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS’ By Wole Soyinka

Elwin Mandowa,
On Friday, February 28th, our kinfolk in the United States, standing shoulder to shoulder with their white compatriots of conscience who have repudiated, or are laboring to discard the privileged mores of a culture of racist disdain, will re-enact the great march on Washington that was once led by Martin Luther King. They will re-awaken the convictions that gave birth… Read More
Africa Investments 

2020 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group: Final Communiqué

Elwin Mandowa,
FINAL COMMUNIQUE OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) AND THE FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND (ADF)HELD VIRTUALLY ON 26th – 27th AUGUST 2020 WE, the Governors, representing Member Countries of the African Development Bank and State Participants of the African Development Fund… Read More
Africa 

Togo overcomes ‘sleeping sickness’ as a public health problem

Village Reporter
Sleeping sickness is a neglected tropical disease that is caused by protozoan parasites (single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the genus Trypanosoma. The parasites are transmitted by infected tsetse flies and if untreated the disease is almost always fatal.   Togo?? is first country ever to eliminate “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem! This achievement comes after more than two decades… Read More